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In 2020 Missouri s Mehlville School District was hit by a cyberattack that diverted a six-figure payment intended for a construction company working with the school system. Before that, a hacker broke into the district network with the intention of changing a user s direct deposit account. In this session you ll hear from Superintendent Chris Gaines and Director of Technology Services Paul Westbrook about how, after those two events, they launched a full-scale program to tighten cybersecurity in the district and get serious about user training.
Every South County school district will be using an influx of federal money over the next three years to address challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, in what one local school leader is calling a “once-in-a-generation opportunity for schools.”
Like county and municipal governments that received federal CARES Act funds to mitigate the pandemic, school districts across the country have also received federal funds called Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief, or ESSER.
The federal government has passed three relief packages in response to COVID-19 since March 2020, including support for elementary and secondary education.
The legislation amounts to more than $193 billion in aid to schools, with the majority of relief funds disbursed based on Title 1, the funds districts receive based on percentage of low-income students.
A lower COVID-19 transmission rate in the St. Louis region and declining case averages have paved the way for Mehlville School District students to attend class five days a week in person, and with more teachers vaccinated the district is looking forward to someday stopping masks.
Mehlville and Oakville high school students started attending class in person five days a week April 19, thanks to vaccinations and those lower transmission and positivity rates.
Despite delivering good news to the Board of Education Feb. 25 in both positivity rates and substitute teacher fill rates, Superintendent Chris Gaines cautioned that there are still quite a lot of unknowns. The district held a two-part vaccination drive in March and April for staff.
Traffic concerns dominated the questions at a town hall last week held about a proposed mixed-use redevelopment plan called “Tesson Ridge” at the 100-acre former MetLife campus in Concord.
The in-person April 29 town hall co-hosted by 6th District Councilman Ernie Trakas drew between 50 and 75 socially distanced attendees, which required an assembly permit from St. Louis County because of capacity restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
St. Charles-based developer Propper Construction Services is proposing a mixed-use development that would cover the entire 100 acres with two new subdivisions with more than 170 single-family homes, a 210-unit apartment building and nearly 8 acres of commercial development along Tesson Ferry Road, with walking trails and public spaces like a plaza and amphitheater.